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> What exactly is causing the fiction

It's truth, not fiction.

Here are dealflow statistics by country [0]

There isn't enough dealflow in much of the EU, leading to a major issues as a founder where you don't have access to operators to give funding, advice, and open doors. This means you have to move, but this also means local champions don't develop who will fund local entrepreneurs.

It's a chicken and egg situation, as there aren't that many unicorns within mainland Europe (CH and DK for biotech, and SW excluded) meaning there isn't as much capital flowing around or experienced people who can found companies.

Edit: realized you meant friction

> is it simply that it is hard to network and gain the confidence of VCs if you don't live close to where they operate from

Pretty much this.

[0] - https://dealroom.co/guides/global
Have you ever worked with ex-spacex middle management? It's not good management.
It requires too much power, according to the article. This allows using "LP" (Low Power) parts to be removable, they normally have to be soldered on board close to the CPU because of the low voltage tolerances.
Thin and light is easier to cool. The entire device is a big heat sink fin. Put another way, as the device gets thinner, the ratio of surface area to volume goes to infinity.

If you want to go thicker, then you have to screw around with heat pipes, fans, etc, etc, to move the heat a few cm to the outside surface of the device.
2021, so not obvious then, but I wonder when he'll switch back because pay for plumbers is higher than that in IT.

Plumbing will likely eventually mostly get replaced by robots, but almost certainly they will hold on longer than most IT professionals.
Getting to the point of arbitrary code execution is always more interesting than what you do with it after the fact.

To be able and take apart the game, find out when and where it does all this, then where you can manipulate things to input instructions, is a level of dedication that's admirable.
Even in the US, "$400k" is almost certainly an outlier and not the typical case. Ever notice how people making these claims never provide data about actual comp distributions? I've been an engineer for almost 10 years and never had an offer come close to $400k per year.
Apple marketed their PPC systems as "a supercomputer on your desk", but it was nowhere near the performance of a supercomputer of that age. Maybe similar performance to a supercomputer from the 1970's, but that was their marketing angle from the 1990's.
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For web apps maybe. What's the "boring" / productive stack for desktop apps? There's this weird paradox with programming languages which causes unproductive stacks to become more popular because programmers like "difficult" stuff and they also generate more online activity.
Enter a link, have a terminal emulator in that page already logged in to your Pi
They know that anyone who has bought an M3 is good on computers for a long while. They're targeting people who have m2 or older macs. People who own an m3 are basically going to buy anything that comes down the pipe, because who needs an m3 over an m2 or even an m1 today?
“Influential art” vs “soulless products” tends to map pretty well to “niche products that return poorly compared to costs to produce while earning critical accolades” vs. “reliable cookie-cutter moneymakers”, and Microsoft isn't in the business to win critical awards for stockholders, but to make money for them.
It would also blow through the iPad’s battery in 4 minutes flat
I have not heard of that before either. What difference does their being trans make then (unless they have had surgery)?
Larger footprint, taller, longer traces and signal degradation in the connectors.
Ah. I guess you could argue that that's technically not directly false. That's an impressive level of being dishonest without being technically incorrect.

By comparing the non-existent neural engine in your typical AI PC, you could claim that the very first SoC with an "NPU" is infinitely faster than the typical AI PC
Starfield was much better than past Bethesda releases, but I agree.
How is paying a lot for energy not the future? It seems to be the trend worldwide.
This case is very interesting to me. China is clearly using TikTok for the nefarious purposes and it is clearly perceived as threat, while West wasn't able to do anything about it for a while due to Western way of conducting business and following laws.
I had a wise friend tell me that engineers are always in a state of being wrong. What you build today you will most likely laugh at in five years. The goal for today is to build the least wrong thing you can.
I used to argue more than I should have simply because I didn't like being wrong either. After hearing this, it helped me to become more objective.
On paper you’re absolutely correct. AI PC is marketing rubbish out of Wintel. Apple’s doing a direct comparison to that marketing rubbish and just accepting that they’ll probably have to play along with it.

So going by the intended usage of this marketing rubbish, the comparison Apple is making isn’t to GPUs. It’s to Intel’s chips that like Apple’s, integrate, CPU, GPU, and NPU. They just don’t name drop Intel anymore when they don’t have to.
Yep subsistence farming in my living room is a good idea too. Do you think I could raise a cow in my bedroom if I swap out my queen bed for a twin?
This is not true. It's quite a complicated topic that SCOTUS still has to fully adjudicate[1]. Regardless of what side you land on, the argument that "moderating user content on themselves is not an infringement of the users free speech rights" is not straightforward, given current legal debate[2][3].

The main issue is that there seem to be two competing claims to the First Amendment: users expressing their views on what some might deem the new "digital public square," and social media companies having the right to allow (or disallow) certain content on their private platforms.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-supreme-cou...

[2] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/netchoice-llc-v-...

[3] https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/social-media-content-mode...
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> There's really no substitute for interviewing based on candidate's experience.

That always happens in an interview loop too though.
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7. something about the relatively low cost of housing in tokyo
The urban-suburban sprawl situation in the US, which is the focus of this article, is far removed from the EU. Metropolitan areas in the US are characterized by having hundreds of kilometers of inefficient low density suburbia. In the US, the highways you mentioned are mostly utilized for inefficiently shuttling of people back and forth across the suburban sprawl. As mentioned in the below linked article, in the US metropolitan areas, urban city areas have 2x to 4x less carbon footprint per capita than the suburbs.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-not-just-cities-subur....
> You must be joking. I write and receive emails containing lists, hyperlinks, or blockquotes all the time.

I am not.

I don't receive e-mails with fancy formatting at all. As for hyperlinks: I can paste a URL just fine without an <A HREF…> tag.
Power plant generation is usually described in watts, because the amount is usually constant (barring solar and wind) as needed.

Grid scale batteries are treated as alternate supplies of energy, but yes, they are storage, and cannot indefinitely run at a constant output.

That's the confusion. Directly comparing them is not useful, except when describing a finite time span.

Gigajoules doesn't really help clarify the confusion, because it doesn't change that they're not directly comparable.
It presumably is pronounced "seek you too", a reference to the old instant messenger ICQ ("I seek you").
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Can't see behind the paywall, but can say that having lived in Newfoundland, that they announce every spring that it is going to be another record-breaking year for "iceberg tourism".
But Hi-Fi Rush did well and invigorated the market. Starfield cost an order of magnitude more and only had the opposite effect. It's like shutting down your successful competitor for your screwup because you're their boss. Almost like the result of an anticompetitive practice.
The bridge itself is wide enough to resurface one lane. But its wheels can move in any direction. So instead of driving forward to do the next section you can also drive three meters to the left or right to do another lane instead.

In general the entire bridge is as maneuverable as a 230m structure can be. The individual segments are designed to articulate. So once it's set up you can move it around to any other patch of road surface in the area.
What kind of database are you using? Postgres has a pretty search built in, I'm sure you can get an easy win here
Caveat: Googler here.

One of the things that had been problematic at Google is the creation of many more products than are really needed, leading to the infamous Google Graveyard. One of the reasons I have come to like writing design docs for my ideas is that a lot of the ideas turn out to be crap when they get written out. Quite a few are good enough that they have already been done, or close enough, which my colleagues can then inform me of. This is a very lightweight way of trimming out useless projects.

And no, Reader wasn't useless. Different story.
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appea...

Good. I think it should be banned but testing this in court is also very important.
just a note for inattentive readers: Outer Wilds from GP's comment is a very different game compared to Outer Worlds which the parent comment mentions.
(it doesn't help that they were both released in the same year, 2019)

Outer Wilds: action-adventure, open world mystery game with puzzles

Outer Worlds: action role-playing game, open world first-person-shooter (similar to the Fallout games)
There's nothing _wrong_ with it, it performs according to spec, but it has limitations: trace length, power requirements, signal limitations, heat, etc.
If we just removed the arbitrary legal barriers which stop urban areas from densifying according to demand, they might never need to spread any further, given the global fertility slowdown.
I rented a place specifically because one of the bedrooms has no windows. Easily one of the best quality of life improvements.
> They'll all be able to code of course...

I promise you that's not the case, lol.
This video shows how the structure is built.
https://youtu.be/Yso0ADvqN-M?feature=shared
If you really need to, there is a tricky path via that to avoid some tax.

You convert the current appreciated house into a rental (this is a non-taxable event).

You rent for whatever the required timeline is, and then 1031 exchange it to a more manageable rental in the area you desire (going from overvalued house in the Bay Area to triple-net commercial elsewhere, for example).

Then you die and pass it on to heirs.
Also the hands get tired holding the book open for long periods
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> Why does it need a big expensive power hungry and environmentally impactful CPU when one 1/10 the speed would do?

Well, it's not. Every process shrink improves power efficiency. For watching videos, you're sipping power on the M4. For drawing...well if you want low latency while drawing, which generally speaking, people do, you...want the processor and display to ramp up to compensate and carry strokes as fast as possible?

Obviously if your main concern is the environment, you shouldn't upgrade and you should hold onto your existing model(s) until they die.
Sounds like the language doesn't have "great concurrency" if you go out of your way to discourage it?
Conceptual examples (not looking to argue about the specific bar):

Senior engineers will:

* Design a significant project which lands with measurable customer impact

* Demonstrate expertise in at least one core skill outside of coding (test infrastructure, SRE, security, accessibility, etc.)

* Demonstrate leadership by either being a TL, owning and leading team pillar efforts (security review, etc.), etc.

* etc.

Mid-level engineers will:

* Own either a small feature end to end or a significant piece of a larger design

* Contribute to at least one non-coding pillar

* etc.

These generally have more areas and can be further granular such as "low-performing midlevel is X, satisfactory is Y, exceeding is Z"
We enjoy art from artists deep in addictions or mental health crisis.

Art can be morbid. Like an ongoing disaster that unfolds before us, we can't look away sometimes.
The tiny spike in battery at 12am is interesting. DC power for things running at midnight?
> I think if big game studios, rather than dumping their copious amounts of money into single, giant-scope games, dealt it out amongst a variety of smaller teams for smaller-scoped projects, they'd be way better off.

This is what game publishers do, and many of them are struggling too. It’s harder than it seems to pick winning horses. (Though in this case, it may be partially because more and more skilled teams are opting to self-publish.)
I have a few pieces from loow.com (Wool backwards.) They are out of EU, and what I have from them, I like! (Not associated, just a satisfied customer that paid full price.)
Woefully glib.
> Glad this is happening

Will you stand by that statement when two astronauts die this weekend?
Cant wait to see this in a framework laptop
Parts of California pay way more for energy because of starting fires leading to bankruptcy.

Other parts of California pay pretty normal rates.
Its really saying something about how the tech sector has shifted due to the recent AI wave that Apple is announcing a chipset entirely apart from a product.

This has never happened to my knowledge in this companies history? I could be wrong though, even the G3/G4s were launched as PowerMacs.
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Geez, I hate having to watch Swiss infrastructure projects. Living in Zurich completely destroyed any residual respect for the way we build in America. Aside from this clever bridge, note how many and how extreme the differences are between what you see in this video and what you would witness watching an American repaving crew. They have a sufficient amount of labor on the job, compared to the 3 guys you would see on an American job. They all have uniform PPE, instead of jeans and t-shirts. Their equipment is clean and looks like it probably works. Site dumpers are appropriately scaled for the job. Bigger dump trucks are normal cabover trucks instead of insane brodozers. They actually use an sufficient quantity of binder, instead of skimping on it because American supervisors can't tell the difference. So many differences in culture.
Thanks so much! Loved reading this. Both of the problems are very interesting and it would be fun to go deeper into them. Would love to stay in touch with you. Can you send a hi at anandbaburajan@gmail.com?
We need our own AMA.
There are a lot of cities that don't have much undeveloped land in their downtowns left. Add in things like work from home for your traditional office workers and you've got a lot more office space than you need so there's a push to find some use for these buildings before the bottom completely falls out of the office real estate market.
It made for a great movie opening ("Wargames", 1983): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6aCpS0-yls

(Don't worry; that guy went on to be White House Chief of Staff.)
If my attention was in a book, I'd be looking up to find one on the roof, one trailing blood and one packing pencils into the toilet.

I'd also not be cooking or cleaning or spending the 1000th hour on the phone with the kids insurance provider. This between activities, assisting with 4-6 hours of homework, working, etc.

Reading typically came out of sleep time.

source: father of 5
Dang, yeah, this is the opposite of what I had in mind

I was thinking, like, a couple hundred dollar Kindle the size of a big iPad I can plug into a laptop for text-editing out and about. Hell, for my purposes I'd love an integrated keyboard.

Basically a second, super-lightweight laptop form-factor I can just plug into my chonky Macbook Pro and set on top of it in high-light environments when all I need to do is edit text.

Honestly not a compelling business case now that I write it out, but I just wanna code under a tree lol
It’s so interesting that you’ve taken away all agency from the Palestinians, or you believe as an absolute rule that giving someone money automatically makes them do chaotic evil things. And that the encourager of the monetary transaction (not the giver or recipient) is solely responsible for any harm or chaos that ensues.

This whole thread is so strange, people keep claiming Palestinians cannot be trusted to rule themselves, while at the same time accusing Israel of genocide for not giving them the ability to rule themselves.
> people will keep traveling long after they exhausted their ability to pay attention, and/or keep reasonable distance from the next one in the front

While this is true, we haven’t stopped selling knives because a few people use them irresponsibly. By the same token, we shouldn’t discount infrastructure because a few people drive when they shouldn’t.
Doesn't higher housing processes allows owners to leverage this asset to refinance the house, thus allowing them to purchase a second property whilst they can rent/AirBnb their existing one? Once they have two properties, they can rinse and repeat at infinitum.
Step 1. AI
Step 2. ???
Step 3. UBI
The logo in the top left leads to the startpage, explaining what zed is:

[..]Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source.[..]

Not sure if I should care, but more fast modern editors are good. But if they only just now got linux-support, then I think they will still need much much love to reach a good shape.
That’s not a neural processing unit. It’s a GPU.

They said they had the fastest NPU in a PC. Not the fastest on earth (one of the nVidia cards, probably). Not the fastest way you could run something (probably a 4090 as you said). Just the fastest NPU shipping in a PC. Probably consumer PC.

It’s marketing, but it seems like a reasonable line to draw to me. It’s not like when companies draw a line like “fastest car under $70k with under 12 cylinders but available in green from the factory”.
That would also explain why retailers have been doing deep discounts on the current Pencil lately.
My daughter is 12 now, and reading tons more than when she was 9. The difference is now she has twice daily access to the high school library versus once a week access to an elementary library.

Not sure how much it generalizes, but what would have had her reading more then would have been a well stocked manga section in the elementary library and daily access.

Manga really is an accessible way to get used to reading, and a gateway. She just finished Lord of the Rings.
You can buy cold brew coffee at Costco in bulk in cans. Just throw some in the fridge.
> The memory bandwidth of 120 GBps is roughly 1/10th of the NVIDIA hardware, but who’s counting

Memory bandwidth is literally the main bottleneck when it comes to the types of applications gpus are used for, so everyone is counting
We try to avoid Boston traffic by driving at night and then we run into... night construction! There's basically no time when traffic is reasonable around Boston. I'm pretty certain if they gave this equipment to the Mass DOT they'd figure out how to modify it to negate any benefit. /rant
Crude static Huffman example, that could definitely be improved:

5 bits 0 0000-1111 acde fghi lmno rstu
7 bits 10 00000-11111 bjkp qvwx yzAB CDEF GHIK LMNO PRST UVWY
7 bits 110 0000-1111 JQXZ 0123 4567 89/.
8 bits 111 00000-11110 !@#$ $%^& *()_ {}[] `~+= |\"' ;:<> ,? (space at the end)
16 bits 11111111 00000000-11111111 plus UTF-8 1 to 256 unicode characters encoded as UTF-8

You could even include some bigrams in this sort of table.

There's some code here that could maybe be used for that sort of static huffman tree:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/lztp/blob/main/generate-seed....

Alternatively, have something like this:

00 000000-111111 1-64 characters, 5 bits each
01 000000-111111 1-64 characters, 6 bits each
10 000000-111111 1-64 characters, ~6.4 bits each (character set of 84 characters, every 5 packed into 32 bits)
11 000000-111111 1-64 characters, UTF-8

This is vaguely similar to how data is encoded for QR codes.

As pointed out elsewhere, this will not outperform zstd with a dictionary trained on a corpus, but zstd would require pulling in a lot of code.
Sorry is "Thank you so much. I will have a serious sit down with the people doing the hiring. I will audit ALL the email threads from ALL candidates, sorted into: Rejected vs. Accepted. I will examine our supposed interview policies and decide if burning our brand to find engineers with experience conducting open heart surgery while piloting a space crafts (Well, if that even is enough experience to give product demos & respond to prospect/customer emails)"

Sorry is "I'll actually do something about this to improve our process."

And yes, you're correct-- You have title-inflated (and probably ego-inflated) "Directors"-- not managers.

Also-- Why can't you hire anyone in the biggest glut of software engineers in years?

If you can't hire people in this hiring climate, the problem is you/your staff, not the candidates.

You and your hiring managers made your bed. Now sleep in it.
Speculation: A lot of it is that chemicals that contribute to flavor are more volatile at higher temperatures.

The same things happens with beer. Many traditional and craft beer styles are intended to be served at a higher temperature than what it will be right out of the refrigerator, and you really do get more (and, to my palate, better) flavor out of them if you let the bottle warm up on the counter for a while before you open it.
“AI PC” is what Microsoft and the industry has deemed SoCs that have an NPU in it. It’s not a term that Apple made up. It’s what the industry is using.

Of course, Apple has had an NPU in their SoC since the first iPhone with FaceID.
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In the UK roadwork sites usually remain much longer than it takes for the result to start deteriorating once they have finished.
Spot on. I want Elder Scrolls 6 to basically be Skyrim in a stunning new location, with better graphics.

Ditto for Forza Horizon 6 and the next installment of The Witcher.